Handle for spades, shovels, forks, and like implements.



' S. R. PARK.

` HANDLE FOR SPADBS, SHOVELS, FORKS, AND LIKE IMPLEMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI: e, 1912.

1 ,077,550, Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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SIDNEY RIcInxIoivn PARK, or WIGAN, ENGLAND.

HANDLE Fon siennes, snm-Inns, remis, II-vn LIKE nartnmnivrs.

Specification yof Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 4, tif-M3.

Applcation'led'une 6, 1912. Serial No. 702,026.

To all whom may concern? Be it known that I, SIDNEY RICHMOND Yann, asubject of the King of England, residing at l5 'Viend, Wigan, in thecountyof Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in or Relating to the Handles of Spades, Shovels, Forks,and like implements, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis i1 vention relates to handles of the split D or eye type, ascommonly used for spades, shovels, forks, and like implements.Generally, such handles are formed or constructed in the followingmanner I-An ordinary wooden stem is split or cut down the center for thelength required, and it is prevented from further splitting at the innerextremity of the cut by means of a transverse rivet; the bifurcated endof the stem is then steamed, and by means of suitable apparatus therespective limbs or members thereof are curved or bent to form the sidesof the D or eye. The ends of said side limbs or members are spanned by across or transverse piece of wood shaped suitable for grasping by thehand, and mounted upon a rivet which also passes through both of saidside limbs or members; thus the handle is completed.

My invention has for its main object to provide new or improved meanswhereby said cross or transverse handle piece is prevented fromrevolving upon the rivet by which it is carried; and consistsessentially in the employment-at one or at both sides of the handle-of awasher, plate, or disk of metal or other suitable material provided oneach side or face with a plurality of pins or nail-like projections, andhaving a central aperture or perforation through which the rivet passes,said washer or the like being disposed between a side limb or member ofthe handle and an end of said transverse handle piece, so that on thetightening of the rivet and the resultant closing or inward movement ofthe side limbs or members, said pins or nail like projections pierce theside member and transverse handle piece, respectively, with the resultthat said transverse handle piece is positively prevented from rotation.Moreover, the pins or naillike projections which pierce said sidemembers also tend to minimize the effect of the I splitting ofthelatter, should such occur, by holding together the parts divided by thesplit.

I will further describe my invention with the aid of the accompanyingsheet 0f eX- planatory drawings, in which Figure l is an elevation,partly in section, of a E? or eye type of handle, provided with myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, in part broken away.

In the drawing, a represents the wooden stem, and Z) the respectivelimbs or members of the bifuroated extremity thereof; c indicates thetransverse handle piece, and d the rivet upon which it is mounted. Ateach side of said handle (i. e. between an end of the transverse handlepiece c and a side limb or member there is fitted a metal washer e, oneach side or face of which pins, or nail-like projections j are formed.Said washer e is provided with an aperture or perforation g, throughwhich rivet Z passes. For the purpose of housing said washer, a recessor cavity i is formed within an end of the transverse handle piece@which is thereby enabled to butt closely against a side member Z).Alternatively, said cavity or recess 7L may be formed within a sidemember 7),' or it may be omitted altogether, the washer e in which caseis preferably of the same diameter as or of similar contour to the endof the transverse handle piece o.

Having now described my invention what l cla-im as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is l. An implement handle comprising abifurcated stem having the furcations in separated and spaced relation,a transverse handle piece interposed between the end portions of thefurcations, a metal plate inset in each end face of the transversehandle, spurs struck up from the body of the metal in oppositedirections transversely to the plane thereof and embedded in thematerial of the cross piece and the furcations, and a rivet passingthrough the furcations and handle piece and headed at the ends.

2. An implement handle comprising a bifurcated wooden stem, whosefurcations are sprung outwardly and bent into substantially parallelspaced relation near the outer ends thereof, a transverse piece disposedbetween and gripped by the parallel tions,the cross piece and the platesand portions having recesses m its end faces, a Clamping them together.'2G l sheet metal plate of less diameter than the In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature l handle piece :seated in each recess, spurs inpresence of two Witnesses.

struck up from the body of each plate and SIDNEY RICHMOND PARK.vextended from each face thereof into the Witnesses: v

face of the Icontiguous handle and cross n JOHN HINDLEY WALKER,

piece, and a rivet passing through the furca- H. WILLIAMS.

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